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  All You Need to Know About Collecting Music in Whatever Format You Desire

  October 10 at 4 a.m.

  The Ultimate Guide to Vinyl and More: All You Need to Know About Collecting Essential Music, From Cylinders and CDs to LPs and Tapes By Dave Thompson 304 pp. $29.99 Backbeat Books Have you heard? Vinyl is BACK! While it’s not the most surprising record format to have a resurgence...

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  A Book on Iron Maiden With Plenty of Input From Journalists and Other Metal Musicians

  October 5 at 4 a.m.

  Iron Maiden: Album by Album By Martin Popoff 256 pp. $30 Voyageur Press Martin Popoff might be the most prolific rock journo of all time. But here – as in his other “Album by Album” books on bands like Pink Floyd and Rush, he doesn’t go it alone. In addition...

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  Bram Stoker's Blood Relative Unearths True Story of Indescribable Evil

  October 4 at 4 a.m.

  Imagine the excitement when, in digging through the texts, notes and drafts left behind by Gothic novelist Bram Stoker, it's been discovered that the author's first 100 pages never made it into the published version of Dracula. Like literary detectives traveling back in time, first time collaborators J.D. Barker (author...

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  Toto's Steve Lukather Holds to No Line in Wild Memoir

  October 2 at 4 a.m.

  The Gospel According to Luke By Steve Lukather with Paul Rees 352 pp. $26 Post Hill Press Toto’s singer/guitarist Steve Lukather was sure that the song was going to be a stinker and hurt the band’s career. I mean, who could relate to a number about a continent that the...

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  Ches Smith Gets Meta with The Author Is Dead

  October 1 at 4 a.m.

  This summer, I read an advance copy of The Author Is Dead, the new darkly comic novel by Houston writer Ches Smith. Well-crafted characters and biting humor make it the best book I’ve read this year and one I believe most fiction fans would enjoy, though Smith says readers with...

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  A Cautionary Tale of Hitler's American Friends

  September 27 at 5 a.m.

  Hitler’s American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States By Bradley H. Hart 304 pp. $28.99 Thomas Dunne Books It was a nice summer picnic in 1937 with a lot of the trappings you might find at any gathering with hundreds of families, food and drink, patriotic speakers,...